Android Hello-World compile error: Intellij cannot find aapt

Question

I\'m trying to get set up with an Android development environment using IntelliJ in Ubuntu 12.04. I create an Android Application Module, but when I try to build, I get the

Answer 1

I ran into this issue but with android-maven-plugin and as a variant of your item #2 rather than copying the file(s) I simply created a symbolic/soft link for aapt

cd platform-tools
ln -s ../build-tools/17.0.0/aapt ./

This approach seemed to get all my builds functioning again.